Unit 1 - This Land is Your Land


Week 1 - Because of Winn-Dixie (Short Vowels VCCV)

Week 2 - Lewis & Clark & Me (Long a and i)

Week 3 - Grandfather's Journey (Long e and a)

Week 4 - Horned Toad Prince (Long e)

Week 5 - Letters Home from Yosemite (Long u)


Unit 2 - Work & Play


Week 1 - What Jo Did (Adding -s, -es)

Week 2 - Coyote School News (Irregular Plurals)

Week 3 - Grace & The Time Machine (Words with ar, or)

Week 4 - Marvin of the Great North Woods (Consonant Pairs ng, nk, ph, wh)

Week 5 - So You Want to Be President? (Words with ear, ir, our, ur)


Unit 3 - Patterns in Nature


Week 1 - The Stranger (Adding -ed, -ing)

Week 2 - Adelina's Whales (Homophones)

Week 3 - How Night Came from the Sea (Vowel Sound in shout)

Week 4 - Eye of the Storm (Compound Words)

Week 5 - The Great Kapok Tree (Possessives)


Unit 4 - Puzzles & Mysteries


Week 1 - The Houdini Box (Contractions)

Week 2 - Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon (Final le, al, en)

Week 3 - The King in the Kitchen (Final er, ar)

Week 4 - Seeker of Knowledge (Consonant /j/, /ks/, /kw/)

Week 5 - Encyclopedia Brown & the Case of the Slippery Salamander (Prefixes un-, dis-, in-)


Unit 5 - Adventures by Land, Air, and Water


Week 1 - Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea (Multisyllabic Words)

Week 2 - Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu (Syllable Patterns V/CV, VC/V)

Week 3 - Amelia & Eleanor Go for a Ride (Greek Word Parts)

Week 4 - Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World (Latin Roots)

Week 5 - Moonwalk (Related Words)


Unit 6 - Reaching For Goals


Week 1 - My Brother Martin (Schwa)

Week 2 - Jim Thorpe's Bright Path (Prefixes mis-, non-, re-)

Week 3 - How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay (Suffixes -less, -ment, -ness)

Week 4 - To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers (Suffixes -ful, -ly, -ion)

Week 5 - The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon (Words with Silent Consonants)